Day in photos: Jan. 7, 2013

A Bahraini anti-government protester tries to conceal a molotov cocktail before tossing it at riot police during clashes in Malkiya.

AP

A homeless man sits wrapped in blankets and surrounded by others at a shelter in the old quarters of Delhi, India. A cold snap in India’s northern areas killed more than 100 homeless, an aid group said last week.

Reuters

One man holds a ladder for another in order to climb to the second floor of an Ortley Beach, NJ, home heavily damaged by superstorm Sandy.

Reuters

Spectators snap shots through showering sand as France’s Laurent Duverney-Pret passes on his quad during the third stage of the Rally Dakar 2013 outside Lima, Peru.

EPA

A group of Palestinian men team up to remove a fallen tree left at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city by nasty storms.

AFP/Getty Images

An officer patrols the rooftop of a building near the Arapahoe County Justice Center during a court appearance by James Holmes, the accused shooter in the July 20 movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo.

Reuters

A pod of hundreds of dolphins splashes around off the coast of Dana Point, Calif., about an hour south of Los Angeles, where someone aboard a local whale-watching craft snapped this shot of the stampede.

AP

A campaign billboard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looms over everyday Israelis in Bnei Brak. General elections in Israel are only two weeks away.

AP

Smoke and ash escape the mouth of the Plosky Tolbachnik volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. Before last week, the last time Plosky Tolbachnik erupted was in 1976.

AP

Police rush to to disperse rioters who’d reportedly hijacked and set fire to a car on the Woodstock Link on the fourth consecutive night of violence in Belfast, Ireland.

Splash News

Participants march with national flags during a religious procession in celebration of the Orthodox Christmas in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Reuters

Barcelona forward Lionel Messi accepts his fourth Ballon d’Or award (FIFA player of the year) at a ceremony at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. Messi scored a record 91 goals in 2012.

AFP/Getty Images

Flyers fan Jeanine Wagner isn’t the only happy hockey fan around today as she watches her team train in Voorhees, NJ. The NHL and its players have come to a lockout-ending deal; the season will start later this month.